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The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28
A Valuable Cherry Tree.

Six hundred dollars seems large price
for one cherry tree, but that was the sum
paid for one in Santa Clara County. 1t
was required to be removed to make way
for the New Almaden Railroad. The
owner demanded 5000 for it; experts
were appointed, and it was proved that
the tree had for years yielded the
owner crops of fruit which sold for
sums equivalent to the interest on the
amount claimed. By compromise 5000
was accepted for the tree. This Will
give our Eastern friends some idea Of
the value of fruit trees and the profit de-
rived from them in Santa Clara Valley
Reno NEE Gazette.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28
SeasonabIe Bee Hints.

1t is necessary that bees receive as care
tul attention as any other of the farm
routine. The person who expects to get
profit from bees, be there few or many
hives, by letting them take care of them
selves, soon gets disguised and declares
bees do not pay. Yet many farmers get
fully as much profit from half dozen
hives of bees, carefully looked to, as for
any other investment of a similar
amount.
There is no season of the year when
bees require more careful attention than
during the latter part of September and
through October Never allow a swarm
to go into winter quarters weak. Unite
TWO swarms destroying one Of the
queens. During the day remove as
many frames from two hives as may suf-
nee to leave only enough for the bees to
cluster on. The queen that is to remain
With the doubled swarm should be Gagged.
Late IN the evening place the frames Of
oeeS from one of the two hives In the
Other and release the queen. Then feed
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28

daily until the swarm has about thirty
pounds of honey. The food should be
the best granulated sugar reduced
into a rather thin syrup, or about
the consistency of new honey.
Melt the sugar and water together,
so when it comes to full scalding heat
it will be of the right consistency. Do
not boil it down too thin, but add little
more sugar. Feed about shutdown and
from this until dark, half pint to pint
day, and increase gradually. The
queen should go to laying Immediately,
and by the time cold weather sets in the
hive should be full of young bees for
wintering.
In a small way, at least, it is preferable
to winter out of doors in a good bee
house. Provide suitable boxes to place
over the hives, SO there may be six in
ches of space on the side and top, leaving
an entrance to correspond to that of the
hive. Remove the supers, spread sleazy
cloth over the frames and pack the chaff
all around the sides and over the top.
This will allow ventilation and absorb all
rising moisture Place a covering over
the chaff to exclude damp, aud the bees
should winter nicely.
Strong colonies that are weak in stores
should also be fed. There will this sea-
son be found many hives weak in stores.
The sooner they are looked after and fed
to increase the stores to full wintering
capacity, the more profitable will the
bees become another season.-6drn1,
Field and ,StOcknaan.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28
The Chinese Way.

.'The Chinese have a novel but effec
tive method of providing against the
failure of banks" remarked naval
officer who had spent several years IN the
Asiatic SQUADRON. should such an in
stitution suspend, the heads of the Off
Gals would, under the Oriental law, be
cut off and made part of the assets: AS
a consequence there has not been bank
failure in the Celestial Empire for nearly
a thousand years" The reporter could
net help thinking that some of the Chi,
nese financial customs might be engrafted
upon banking systems of this country
with advantages to poor depositors.
John Chinaman may not be much of
stump speaker, or warrior, or political
wire pulier, but when it comes to lying
kites, playing euchre, cleaning sh!rts ana
dealing with swindlers he can give his
Occidental brethren pointers and hold
lone hand every time - Ph'IGdetph'a
Call
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Disease in Sheep

A soft, puffy swelling under the jaws
is a symptom of various diseases in sheep
arising from impoverished blood and
dropsical condition. This is caused by
anything which prevents full nutrition
and oxidation of the blood. Thus dis
order of the liver caused by the presence
in it and in the gall bladder of parasites,
known as fukes. produce this puffy swell
ing thread worms in the throat and
lungs also cause this swelling under the
Jaw, which contains watery serum. 1t is
also produced by the injurious effect of
grubs in the head, which weaken the
sheep. When fukes infest the liver the
whites of the eyes ara yellow when
worms exist in the throat the eyes are
blood less and pale and the skin is thin
and white, and grubs in the head cause
discharge from the nose and violent snort
ing. The remedy for all these is to give
four drachms of turpentine every morn
ing mixed with molasses or milk an hour
before feeding, and to give salt daily and
feed literally with bran and oats.-NeW
York Times.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28
A WORD OF WARNING.

represented to be just good as the Ivory
thew ARE NOT peculiar and remarkable qualities
the genuine. Ask "Iyory" and insist getting it,
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The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
wbat SaIt is Good For.

When you clean your cellar add .
little copperas water and salt TO the
whitewash
Sprinkling salt on the tops and at the
bottoms of garden walls is said to keep
snails from climbing up or down.
For relief from heartburn or dyspepsia
drink little cold water In which has
been dissolved teaspoonful Of salt.
Ink stains on linen can be taken out
if the stain is first washed in strong salt
and water, and then sponged with lemon
juice.
For weeds in the grass, put pinch or
two of salt in the middle of each, and,
unless shower washes it off, it will kill
the weeds.
For stain on the hands, nothing is bet
ter than little salt, with enough lemon
Juice to moisten it, rubbed on the spots
and then washed off in clear water.
In a basin of water, salt, of course,
falls to the bottom; so never soak salt
fish with the skin side down, as the salt
will fall to the skin and remain there.
Salt and mustard, a teaspoonful of
each, followed with sweet oil, melted
butter or milk is the antidote for Fow-
ler's solution white precipitate of ar
senic.
For weeds in pavements or gravel
walks make a strong brine of coarse salt
and boiling water; put the brine IN a
sprinkling can and water the weeds
thoroughly, being careful not to let any
of the brine get on the grass, or 1t Will
kill it too.
If a chimney or fiue catch on fire,
close all windows and doors first, then
hang blanket in front of the CRATE to
exclude all air. Water should never be
poured down the chimney, as it spoils
the carpets. Coarse salt thrown down
the t1ue is much better.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28
Cleanliness and Order in the Dairy.

Canon Bagot, an English authority in
Dairying, seems to be digging into some
mustv practices in the British Isles. In
a recent lecture on DAIRY Farming" he
states that it was not the cow which pro-
duced the milk alone, but the food and
water which they put into her, for the
animal was only the machine which pro-
duced the milk and cream. He impressed
upon his audience the necessity there was
for treating their cows with gentleness,
as in case a dairymaid or any one else
ili-treated cow, then she would not let
down her milk, and evil results would
follow. A COW must be MIXED with
quickness, and no time DUG ht to be lost
in getting the milk strained into the
settling pans. Upon the great necessity
for cleanliness, that the milk might pro-
duce the greatest quantity of good cream,
he said milk ought to be shallow in sum-
mer and deep in winter in the pans.
But if they allowed their cream to
remain too long on the milk it became
sour, and this effectually stopped the
farmer obtaining good price Tor his but
ter. He believed that a great many
samples of butter shown at the recent
country show at York, were bad solely
owing to the cream not having been
taken from the milk until it had begun
to decompose. Replying to the question,
how long should they keep their cream
before they churn it, he was aston
ished to hear that the Yorkshire custom
was only to churn once a week. but he
urged them to churn every third day.
They should keep each Swimming of the
milk separate until about two hours be-
fore they put it into the churn. He adj
vOcated every farmer being possessed of
thermometer which could be purchased
for one shilling, which he called labor
saving machine, because it told them eX-
actlv the temperature at which to churn.
Sixty degrees temperature was about the
heat at which the cream should be
churned. He said that fve-sixths of the
bad butter made at the present day was
due to farmers not knowing when to stop
churning.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28

A man who had been hired to SOW
some clover-seed at Edmore, Mich, went
through the motions, but kept the seeo
in the bag, and then carried 1t nome ano
sowed it upon his own land.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28
How to Get Rid of Canada ThistIes.

Several correspondents make the old
query of how to get rid of Canada thistles.
The only way that has met with general
success is to prevent the tops from grow
ing until the roots die of exhaustion, or
in other words, until the plant dies from
want of air and light. The reason why
the Canada thistle is so hard to kill out is
because the roots are not only perennial
but they spread by underground root
stocks, i. e., stems that branch off I'M
der ground and produce new plants.
These perennial roots and root-stOcks are
several inches below the depth of the
ordinary furrow cut, and are not usually
turned up in stirring or breaking the
ground. One blowing merely puts the
land in nice filth for them to come
up and make a good crop of vigorous
shoots, as with an asparagus bed. To
Kill them the land must be continuously
pIOwed or the thistles otherwise cut off
for one, two or three summers. Enough
time should not elapse between the
blowing to allow the thistles to get up
and get their breath, so to speak. In
hoed crops they are sometimes killed
out by giving constant attention. OBJ
servation leads to the belief that the
seeds are very uncertain if grown far
North. Many isolated patches are grown
in Chicago on vacant lots and along un
improved streets. These seem to spread
rather slowly by the underground root
stocks, but their absence in adjoining
lots and streets as favorably situated in
dictates that the seeds are not perfect
Prairie Farmer
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-28
Recipes.

CABBAGE SALAD. Shred very fine one
head of white cabbage. Make dressing
of one-half teacupful of salad oil or
melted butter, one-half teaspoonful OF
pepper, one teaspoOnful of SALT one tea
spoonful of sugar and one teacupful of
vinegar. A few minutes before using
mix cabbage and dressing thoroughly
together.
OYSTER STEw-One quart of oysters,
one cupful of milk, and piece of butter
the size of an egg Dip the oysters from
the liquor, put them in saucepan with
the butter; put them on the fire until the
butter melts, then add the milk, with
teaspoonful of flour mixed in with it;
add little mace and pepper and salt;
let it boil up once, and serve i'm
mediately.
SWISS CAKE-One-half pound each of
butter, -four and sugar, and four eggs.
Beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar
and some grated lemon peel. Add the
butter melted, and slowly shake in the
flour, beating it until we'll mixed. Beat
the whites of the eggs to froth, mix
the whole together and beat on for
awhile after the whites are added; but
ter tin and bake the cake One-half
hour
BAKED INDIAN PUDDING.-Make with
milk and sifteG meal pint of thick mush.
Let 1t boil until thol oughly scalded, and
set it away to cool. When cool add two
weI-beaten eggs, a small cup of molasses,
a tablespoonful of ginger, half tea
spoonful of cinnamon and little salt;
add enough cold milk to fill the basin in
which it is to be cooked, and few APP
piles, sliced; place in the oven and when
crusted over add piece of butter half
the size of an egg.
RIPE CUCUMBER PICKLE.-Pare and
cut in strips ripe cucumbers, boil in water
until wooden toothpick will go through
easily, drain we'll and place in jar. Make
a pickle to cover them by allowing one
quart of vinegar to two pounds of sugar.
Put teaspoonful OF cloves, cinnamon
and allspice, and half teaspOonful of
pepper in a bag, boil the vinegar, with
the sugar and spice added, and pour hot
over the cucumbers; less spice can be used
if desired.
BEEF CHEEsE.-This is most con-
venient dish to have in the house, where,
sometimes. a meal has to be served in
hurry or, if a lunch has to be taken,
either to business or school, nothing can
be nicer or more easily got ready than
slices of beef cheese, cut thin, and made
into sandwiches between slices of but
tered bread To make the cheese proceed
as follows: Take three pounds of lean beef,
from any feshy part of the animal, with
with half pound of veal and half
pound of lean, uncooked ham, and
mince them together as finely as possible
Cut half pound of fat bacon into small
dice, and mix it with the minced meat
Season pleasantly with salt, pepper,
finely chopped parsley, powdered cloves
and grated lemon rind. Grease thoroughly
a plain, pretty tin mold, press the
seasoned meat rather firmly into it, just
moisten it with strong, nicely favored
stock, and bake in a slow oven four hours.
Let it stand over night to stiffen and get
thoroughly cold, then turn it out, and
garnish pre- tiy with border of fresh
parsley 1t is surprising how very
economical beef is when cooked in this /
Mower County transcript., 1887-10-19
FOR SUND a \ Y DING
.THE SHADE oW5 oF 81, II TINY 4, l5'Il WINGS.

sLaboring and heavy laden, conscious Of full
many d taint 81
Unto Thee aweary sinner comes with trembling
heart and faint; s# SSf
Hard pursued by fears OF dying, hopelessly him,
self he fings ss $s }.s5s,ss sSsa
AT Thy feet, and plends, "Lord, hide me meath
the shadowof Thy wings. q
Surely thou art fun Of mercy, cen % I an, n,
full OF sin u; %s
And with Thee Is power 81 cleansing, as with
me there Is nothing clean, 5s
Thou ana Thou alone canst save me; 50 to
. Thee my sad heart clings, Il S4
Crying Hide me, Saviour, hide me, meath the
shadow OF Thy wings. = Z. .fz S.5ss
Thou hast heard my cry and hid me- and my
heart at length finds rest; sz 81
Bittorness is turned to sweetness; in Thy love
my SOULS blost. 5sS ISL +z 6S I. s3ff SsS
All my moan Is turned to rapture, ana my peace-
fulspirit sings: h
'"rhere Is gladness, passing gladness, In the
shadow Of Thy Wings s,s$8{ lss@5
Little now 1t matters whether cometh deatt or
cometh life; &<.3 @ S@.ss (. ..!!ss ssg
What is death but peace most Joyous, after long
and bitter strife? n H. II 33 5$s. 1zs
Sweetest sleep that follows labor, endless end
i OF sutrerings, "A ( <$ @Ss 5ss III. 8*
Blissfulest OF beacdictions, in the shadow Of
u Thy wings. 81 i 81 GE t.9s 81,
Eagerly my spirit rises toward the place OF
# Thy abode; $$vs3.gzss & 34t@4
Hast'ning on from grace to glory, gladly greets
V. the short 'ningro 5 $.t,ss s 5Stss.z
Fearless to Thy throne it presses, o exalted
@ S. King of kings, 81 r. s s L ri S5sSF
Finds, at last, the rest remaining In the shadow
Of thy wings! ~
4. Req. N. W: Wells, IN Christian at Work.
Mower County transcript., 1887-10-19
Some Amusing Retorts.

A fudge, whose personal appearance
was as unprepossessing as his intelle(<
was keen and his Judgment fair, asked
a young lady noted for her sharp wit
what ' she t2,1 meant by the term ';hum- :;
lady, angry at the interruption, II
hardly know how to explain It; but if
a young lady called your lordship
handsome man, she would be humbug-
gin9 you"
Even sharper was the epigrammatic
reply Of q young lady to an OLD adnirer,
who, having; found her glove, returned
it to her with the following distich:
If irony your glove you take tho letter G
Your glove is love, which devote to thee.
i The old #gentlcman's name was Page;
and he: received the following unex-
.pected answer, which chagrined him
so much that he left the place. !,
II from your Page you take tho letterP
Your Page is age, and that won't do FOR me.
Mower County transcript., 1887-10-19
Cocaine Internally.

DR.. L. Frey, of .Bekes, having as a
patient a young woman who had mitral
insufliciency and hypertrothy Of the
heart associated with hyperesthesia of
different parts Of the body, which
caused extreme irritability Of the stom-
ach and constant vomiting, SO that for
some days she had scarcely twenty
minutes intcrmission, tried digitalis,
opiates, ice. cold applications, ETC., but
without any effect. He then deter
mined to try cocaine internally. He
gave three-quartcrs of agrain dissolved
in water, which was followed by a
cessation of the attacks of vomiting for
two hours; another. dose gave the pa
tient six hours rest, after which a vio-
lent attack of vomiting came on. The
third dose stopped the vomiting alto
gether, after which all the other symp-
toms from which the patient suffered
rapidly improyed.--Ldn
Mower County transcript., 1887-10-19
Wanted Mamma TO- Know III ]

Little w illie5 had had the subject of
e new brother on 81 tel. ,e,itioned to
*llin,sas q proba bility ill the ne,lr ftu.--
stnre. sne nor rllin:gs the nurse called
him and sniid:
s.NI lille, here is d little, sister the an,
gels brought YOU last night 81
let me see! cried Willie in "a
ggroat .sylse. 81 I'he angels never had
any parasols, did they e.
s ny, what e question. Why do.
you say SOP B.
Cause. they let her get sun burnt.
She's :'l. right,rcd. q Take keer, let me BY,
quick. '
~ Y here ;.rc Jon goin 6?
:S Going totcll mamma. Sire don't
know it yet. I" The sC4oloncl. .1
Mower County transcript., 1887-10-19
HEA IA 1AlRrLEss CRUELTY 4

itis to deludes 80 poor sui into the belief
that some Worthl less liniment will cure rleu-ss
Inatisnl and neuralgia. Honesty is the best
policy in the manufa facture of proprietary ar
stlclesasin all other matters, and the fact that
the prophet of Athlophoros have never
claimed for it even oil its merit would war;
rant has not q little to dowith its wond devfnl5
popularity and the thousands Of grateful
testimonials received by them show that
their policy has been wise as well rs right.
Experience has amply demo monstrated
that mere outward appli are worth
less. The disease has its seat in the blood,
and any remedy to beagucc ccessf1l must deal
with the Obstructive acid which poiorls
and inAames it. s.. 5s.s &. NJ. ]. |:=z
Athlophoros acts on the blood, muscles
and joints directly. It takes the poison
out of the blood and 3carriessit out Of tho
system itinvigorates the. action Of the
muscles and limbers the stiffness Of tile
joints. 1t reaches the liver and kidneys,
cleansing them from irritating substances,
and. if followed up after the rheumatic
5 conditions cease, it will restore these organs
to regularity and health. $.,5
Dr.. W.sD. Bryant, GAINESVILLE, Mo-, says:
81 bought bottle Of Athlophoros for q
lady. She had not taken all the bottle be-.
fore she was SO far restored, as to resume
her household duties. She had been con-
fined to her bed for three weeks, Unable to
{ turn herself. The disease was inflamn1;.-
tory rheumatism. She has not had . re-
cyrrence Of it, since. Athlophoros IS zal
that is claimed for il" &.
ENCORE, stahl, Mo-, says I" Four bot
ties Of Athlophoros cured me Of rhennn,-
tis.n two years ago, and I have not felt
pain or ache since"
= Every druggist should keep Athloph ores
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they cam
not be bought Of the druggist the Athlo-
phoros Co., 112 Wall St., New York, will
send either carriage paid on receipt Of
regular price, which is $1.0O per bottle
for Athlophoross and 50c for Pills. - !. s
i: For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia. IT,
digestion, weakness, nervous debility, diseases
blood, &C., a thlophoros Pills ore unequaled. II
Mower County transcript., 1887-10-19
Imposing on the Bridegroom.

The mode of procedure in the vii
.lage of Galashiels was as follows:
EARLY in the day after the marriage
those interested in the proceedings as
semblcd at the house of the newly
welded couple. bringing. with them a
"creel". or basket. which they filled
with stones. The young husband, on
being brought to the door, had the
creel firmly fixed to his back, and with
it in this position had to run the round
Of the town, or at least the chief por-
ton of it, followed by anumbcr Of mon
to see that he did not drop his-burden;
the only condition on which he was al
lowed to do so being that his wife
should come. after him and kiss him.
As relief depended altogether upon the
wife, it would sometimes happen that
the husband did not need to run more
than few yards; but when she was
more than ordinarily bashful, or wished
to have little sport at the expense Of
her lord and master-which it may be
supposed would not unfrequently be
the case-he had to carry his load a
considerable distance. This custom
was very strictly enforced, and the
person who was last creelcd had charge
Of the ceremony, and he was naturally
anxious that no one should escape.
The practice, as far as Galashiels was
concerned, came to an end about one
hundred years ago, with the person of
one Robert Young, who, on the osten-
sible plea of a ''sore BACK" lay abed
all the day after his marriage, and OBJ
stinately. refused to get up and be
creeled. He had, it may be added in
extenuation, been twice married be-
fore, and had on each occasion gone
through the ceremony of being creeled,
and now, no doubt, felt that he had
quite enough of creeling.- .-AU the Year
R02k3zH. SO - 's&@A't -
Mower County transcript., 1887-10-19
Sunday-School Lessons.
FOURTH QUARTER.

a. i .s: FOURTH QUARTER. rsr %@E. r
Dot. 2-The Centurion's Faith Matt. 6: 8-13
Oct. 9-The Tempest Stilled.... 80. Matt. 6:1s-27
Oct. l6-Power to Forgive Sins. :. Matt. Q: 1-8
Oct.'23-Three Miracles. Matt. 9:1S-31
Oct. 30-The Harvest and the La - 4sAz
borers. ........ Matt 0: 35-3S; 10: 1-8
Nov. G-Confessing Christi. Matt. 10 :32-42
Nov. 1s-Christ's Witness to John Matt. IL: 2-15
Nov. .s0-Judgment and Mercy. -. Matt. II 2O-S0
Nov. s7-Jesus and the Sabbath. Matt. 1s: ia
Dec. 4-Parable OF the Sower...... Matt. 13: 1-9
Dec. 11-Parable Of the Tares -. Matt. IL :34-SO
Dec 1S-Other Parallels = s4 ,r>Ss :
49,, ......... ........... Matt. 13: 1-33: 44-52
Dec s5-Review. Lesson selected by the school;
or Christmas Exercise. s:4fE L;
Mower County transcript., 1887-10-19
Twas a L,ttlc Hard for Hi1n.

There is a gentleman III Minneapolis
who is somcthiny Of ! pr:.ctic:ll joker.
Lis friends think he deyotes three
fourths Of his time to dcvising jokes.
But his victims WILDE reYeItgsd. lie
has \ small tlaugh who promises IL
be fully as badzin respect to jokes as
her father. The other day they were
out at the lake. It was very dusty AMI
the wind was blowing. Thclittle s. year
old went up to her father and said:
Papa, did YOU wash your eyes oui
this mor,iing?' p ii .,.'s55E
.'Why, yes, Of course, answered the
parent, as he removed chunk of dust.
well. iow#did you get them in
again?" demanded the infant Min7,c.
Gpolls .0zt7nuL. Il. =, t.-e